Staff profiles

Head of Department

The West Indies and modernity, Kingston, Jamaica, cosmopolitanism, Kantian anthropology and epistemology, international migration, creolisation, rationality and judgement, comedy and mischief, imagination and perception.

Fiji and the Pacific, and Melanesia. Theoretical interests include: exchange processes; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human being; sociality, kinship and ideas of the person; the analysis of ritual; epistemology; ontogeny as a historical process.